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The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)

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“I sometimes look at my bookshelf now and think about how someday I'm going to die without ever reading a lot of the books there. And one might be life-changingly good and I'll never know.”
― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

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“The things that hurt you, change you. And they can either make you better or make you worse.”
― Robin Roe, Dark Room Etiquette

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“My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

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“It feels like God has a language—one I could learn if I keep trying.”
― Robin Roe, Dark Room Etiquette

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“For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.”
― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

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